3: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Online Lessons
UC Open Access - Incorporation (32)
UC Open Access - The Establishment Clause (33)
UC Open Access - The Free Exercise Clause (34)
UC Open Access - Freedom of Speech (35)
UC Open Access - Freedom of the Press (36)
UC Open Access - The Fourth Amendment (37)
UC Open Access - Due Process and Criminal Rights (38)
UC Open Access - Civil War Amendments and the Civil Rights Movement (39)
Comedy
The Daily Show: Correspondents Explain the 1st Amendment
The Daily Show: Correspondents Explain the 2nd Amendment
The Daily Show: Correspondents Explain the 6th Amendment
The Daily Show: Judicial Review (Marbury V. Madison) and rights of police to strip search
The Daily Show: Tom Goldstein (SCOTUS Blog) on civil liberties, judicial review part 2
Stephen Colbert: Obama administration's interpretation of due process in the War on Terrorism
The Daily Show: Voting Rights Act
The Daily Show: Stop and Frisk part 2
The Daily Show: Race Relations in America
The Daily Show: Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment banning slavery... in 2013 (2)
Civil Rights
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations (the author on Colbert Report)
Article about the segregation of America's schools
Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem
Article about segregated proms in 2013
Employers' Replies to Racial Names (2)
Black Man and White Felon - Same Chances for Hire (2)
Article on wealth distribution and race
More on racial economic differences
Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists
Views on Interracial Marriage in Mississippi (2) (3)
Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment banning slavery... in 2013
The case against equality of opportunity
Article about women in the Senate
State by state timeline of women's suffrage
MLK - Letter From Birmingham Jail
Affirmative Action
Economist article on Asian-American disadvantage, possibly due to affirmative action
The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action
SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college admissions
Civil Liberties
Are justices biased when they interpret the Constitution?
Article about the recent history of free speech cases
Glenn Greenwald on secrecy, transparency and the war on terrorism
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Supreme Court Ruling - Snyder v. Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)